Assumed elections by the elite for the elite : according to C Hill "the common people ('men with no shirts' a disgruntled Royalist called them) (Lownes m.s.s.H.M.C., p549)took an unusally active share into 2 elections of 1640, on the anti court side- .........At Great Barlow, bargemen,labourers, shopkeepers-'the ordinary sort of townsmen',led by 'a country fellow in a plain habit', put up their own candidate against the local landlord who had court connections-and won (C.S.P.D.... see page p22 for all the details in c hill WorldTurn Upside Down)